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Mountains: Because They Are There - II
Mountains may be the waving of the earths crust to the rest of the heavens as if to say hello. Just like the waves, mountains can fold, fault, and become residual, and like Tsunamis, for miles and miles around, volcanoes blow up and drown everything in sight inside their ashes.
The majesty of the mountains has inspired myths to be created around them; Mount Meru in the center of the Himalayas was thought to be the axis of the universe as Mount Olympus was where Zeus resided. Hindus and Buddhists believed in the divinity of the mountains and assigned each one to be a home to a god.
As well as serving as residences to gods and being the sites of sacred revelations, mountains are also regarded as portals to the underworld. In Icelandic folklore, the Christian priests who took on the role of mythic heroes we
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